Episode 1770 Scott Adams: Let's Talk About The January 6 Kangaroo Court. You Won't Want To Miss This
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It's hard to be optimistic when everything seems like it's falling apart, doesn't it? The economy is melting, inflation is high, and gas is too expensive, and that omicron never seems to go away, and nuclear war is getting ready to spark up any moment now. Where's my water?
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to not only the highlight of civilization, but the best example of it.
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Today's show will feature talk about the kangaroo court. I know that's why you're here. Yeah, it is.
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Well, ladies and gentlemen, I have this weird optimistic feeling I wanted to share with you, because it seems like everything's falling apart, doesn't it?
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The economy is melting and inflation's high and gas is too expensive and that Omicron never seems to go away and blah, blah, nuclear war, shortage of everything.
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Where's my water? Forest fire is getting ready to spark up any moment now.
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But, did you know that if we were a company instead of a country, and you could apply this to whatever country you're in, companies need to cannibalize themselves.
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So companies need to put themselves on a business every few years in order to renew, because if they don't put themselves on a business, someone else will by making a better product.
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So Apple, for example, needs to continually make a better product such that the last product they made looks like crap.
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So they need to destroy themselves every few years. Apple does.
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You've probably noticed that Germany and Japan did well with help, but recovering from World War II.
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So burning everything down every now and then is part of the necessary moving forward process.
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The part that's alarming is that the safest path for humanity looks like the least safe path.
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Because we're naturally biased toward keeping things the same, don't rock the boat.
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And for anything to change drastically, you've got to rock the boat.
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So while it is really always the safest thing to do to cannibalize yourself,
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to destroy what you have to try to build it back to a better way,
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And while you're in it, it feels like everything's going wrong.
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But I have this feeling that none of these things are going to kill us.
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And that we're seeing the small micro-nuclear projects going forward.
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We're seeing all kinds of innovation and everything from farming to space to who knows where we're going to find our next rare earth minerals.
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Some people say, well, we'll just mine them from the ocean.
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So almost all the things that look like these horrible problems are almost guaranteed
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to create a renewed product or a set of products or new systems around those things that weren't working well before.
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There's just a whole bunch of stuff that's going to get better.
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And today, we're just going to have fun talking about the silliness
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and thinking about all the things that are going to get better.
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So that's the toughest situation in which to be optimistic when everything's on fire.
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But everything that burns down gets built back better, to use a Bidenism.
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two people were rescued after falling into a tank full of chocolate at the Mars M&M factory.
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So two people fell into a big tank of chocolate,
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It's not clear how the two people got in there,
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but there are some preliminary reports about the two people who got into the M&M chocolate.
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Preliminary reports are that they were both nuts.
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Some of you thought it was the best thing you heard today.
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Well, I have come up with a solution for solving the immigration crisis at the border.
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I just think we should be able to control how it's done.
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And right now, the Democrats seem to be less interested in controlling it.
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But I came up with a strategy that you will laugh at.
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Number one, you'll laugh because you'll think it's a joke.
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And then after you laugh, you'll realize that the reason you're laughing is because it would work.
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Damn it, that would actually, in the real world, that would actually work.
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Now, originally, I thought they should say MAGA on them, but that's too far.
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And they all have to have them before they come across the border.
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what do Republicans think when they see the migrants streaming across the border
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My God, look at all these future Democrat voters.
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But imagine if every time you saw a new video of a caravan streaming across the border,
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they were all wearing hats that reminded you of Republicans.
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Wouldn't you like to see people streaming across the border wearing American flags?
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Wouldn't you, first of all, wouldn't you feel differently?
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So the first thing you do is you make the media argue whether a red hat with an American flag on it only means Republican.
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But the left has made it mean that to themselves.
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So if it means that to themselves, well, that's sort of on them.
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Here we assume that there's some Republican fund that funds these hats.
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Do you think it would influence the immigrants to be more pro-American?
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Just because they got a free hat and they had a little flag on it.
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Not only would they be influenced by the hat that they were wearing, but they would see their friends with the same hats.
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They would feel an immediate sense of reciprocity.
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If America gives you a hat, like it's a gift, you walk in the door illegally and they give you a gift.
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Because you would come to think it was Republicans, too.
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What would you do if the very first thing that happened is you broke the laws in America, but they gave you a gift?
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I mean, I didn't even put a foot across the border.
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And whoever hands out these red hats with flags on them, I like them because they took care of me because it was really hot.
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If you look at how poor they appear to be, it looks like they can't afford hats, a lot of them.
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Because I don't know why you wouldn't wear one in the summer.
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Come up with a Republican app, the sort of branded Republican, maybe even with the red colors and the American flag still.
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So make it look like it's an American thing, but sort of obviously Republican.
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And let's say the app helped them find jobs at Republican-owned farms and businesses.
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Because it's not as if we don't need the labor.
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But suppose Republicans said, look, if we can't stop the immigration, at least can we get you in this app?
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So at least we'll be able to track you a little bit.
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And if you wear our hat and you use our app, we'll make sure you get paid.
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How about if you use the app, we'll make sure that your employer has to use the app to pay you.
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Because you'll put your hours into the app and it'll be able to track if you showed up for time, showed up to work.
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So you can imagine a set of features that the app would have that would simply be useful.
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It wouldn't matter if you were a legal or an illegal alien.
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And then suddenly, what would the Democrats say about a situation in which the Republicans are still advocating for total border security?
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And I advocate for total control of a border, but I don't advocate for turning off immigration.
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And so what if the Democrats said to themselves, wait a minute, I just saw that poll that said a lot of, I don't know if it's first or second generation immigrants from Mexico and Latin America,
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So imagine if you saw them, the Republicans appear to be courting their vote before they even stepped over the border.
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Imagine if the Republicans played to wimp and just said, look, we're going to win one of two ways.
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But if you're not going to close it, we're going to turn them into Republicans.
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It's either a controlled border or lots more Republicans.
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You don't think the Republicans could turn them into Republican voters if they really put the effort into it?
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And if the Republicans talked about it and said, look, it's not our first choice,
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but we're sure as hell not going to let them come to this country and not have American values.
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Number two, if you're going to be here, do we manage that situation well or do we just let it handle itself?
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So the idea is amazingly provocative but completely practical.
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Like every part of what I just described is doable and legal and I don't think there's anything that would stop you from doing any of it.
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It's just money and it would be money well spent if you were of that political persuasion.
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All right, Rasmussen reports that that gap when they do the generic Republican against the generic Democrat for the midterms,
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the lead is up to nine points for the generic Republican.
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So I think it's the highest gap, correct me if I'm wrong, at least within Rasmussen, at least lately.
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I think it's one of the biggest gaps we've seen in enthusiasm or likely outcome.
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But remember, there are no generic Republicans and there are no generic Democrats.
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So it doesn't really mean exactly that all the Republicans win, but we'll see.
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Amazingly, Twitter has decided to give Elon Musk all the data he wants.
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It's been described by some as a firehose of data.
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They could be giving him so much data that it can't be analyzed because it's just not in the form that anybody can use it,
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that it can't be analyzed before the deal needs to close or if there's some kind of deadline involved.
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They could be just burying him in data, which would be as good as giving him nothing.
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So let's wait for the next level of information about what this really, really means.
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Because the next thing you should hear is Elon Musk either saying,
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this data is useful and it's exactly what I wanted,
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This data is useless and it doesn't tell me what I need to know or there's something missing or something like that.
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Do you think Elon Musk is going to take that data and say, exactly what I asked for?
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Everybody who's ever worked for a big company knows this is a trick.
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Now, we don't know how much of a trick, but it's a trick.
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There's no such thing as a big corporation that just says, you know what?
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Hey, let's just completely change our stance from it's impossible to give you for 10 different reasons.
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Completely change that and we'll just give you all the data.
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It's either too much data, the wrong data, or it's 99% of the data, but without the 1% that really would be the dangerous part.
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It could be that the data has already been massaged.
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It could be that they're selectively picking time periods for when they looked at the data.
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Perhaps it's the data only since after they scrubbed out the bots.
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You know, you could think of 50 different ways a corporation could manage this situation, if you know what I mean.
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And I say this as somebody who worked for big corporations, massaging data.
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This was literally my job, you know, to make stuff persuasive.
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So, and that meant a little bit of interpretation and assumption going on there.
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I tried to catch as much of it and plus the arguments as I could.
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So, the first thing you care about is that Fox News just had Tucker Carlson show instead.
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He said that he wouldn't carry the propaganda and he wouldn't help them because they're lying.
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So, I like the fact that he just says it directly.
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CBS apparently said the protesters caused the death of five police officers because of the January 6th protests.
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The reality is there were five police officers who died after the event of suicide.
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But there's no definitive connection that January 6th caused that
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because there's a high rate of suicide among that population.
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So, that was just, you know, one of the examples of the, I would call that a lie.
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Now, here's the thing that I wasn't quite sure of.
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Like, I thought this was going to be the case a little bit.
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They're actually having the hearings and just showing one side of the argument?
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And since when in the United States does anybody think a fair system is one side telling their story?
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Is there even one person in anywhere, even one person, this is an actual challenge.
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Find me one citizen of the United States, legal or illegal,
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who thinks that a good system involves hearing one side tell their story.
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There's not one person in the whole world who thinks that that makes any sense.
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Now, what I love about their strategy from a persuasion perspective,
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if I'm going to give them a persuasion grade, it's going to be good.
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Because what they're doing is completely unethical, un-American, unscrupulous,
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But what the Democrats are doing right now to the country is on a par with the thing they're talking about.
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The videos are quite persuasive that there was a super, super dangerous situation with real injuries.
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So persuasion-wise, they did a great job, because they make you feel it.
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And you hear the anguished calls from the law enforcement people,
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you know, that they're basically outnumbered and getting pushed around and everything.
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And the genius of which they, of course, selectively, selectively, you know, put the audio over the video.
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Because don't you think there were some law enforcement people who weren't talking like they were about to be killed at any moment?
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There had to also be video or audio of law enforcement saying,
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we will need reinforcements over the East Gate.
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Looks like we're holding them, but better get over here pretty quickly.
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Or did they all talk like, they're coming through the gate.
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I want to make clear that that was not intended to be mocking the audio of the people who were literally risking their life
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But the audio that were chosen was chosen to make you feel a certain way, to make you feel afraid, put you in the seat.
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Now, if you were just going to dip into this like most consumers would,
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that people like me, some of you, are going to sort of dig in and see what's going on, because we like it.
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But the casual public is going to turn this on, and they will be under the mistaken impression
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that it's some kind of a balanced discussion, or you see both sides, or, you know, somebody gets to interview people,
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and then there's, you know, counter-interviews.
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You would just assume that the other side was being shown, wouldn't you?
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Do you know why this is in the form of a documentary?
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Because a documentary is persuasive, because it doesn't try to necessarily, depends on the documentary,
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but it doesn't necessarily try to show both sides.
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So why do you have to do a documentary as your form of presentation?
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You use the documentary form when the facts don't make the case.
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Where would this be if the facts made the case?
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Wouldn't there be some kind of legal court case involved?
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What do the Democrats say about claims of election irregularity?
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So why do the Democrats need to use a documentary hearing that shows only one side?
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Because there's no court that found whatever it is that they're alleging to be illegal,
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except for the specific cases, of which there are quite a number of them,
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of specific people who did illegal things, which I don't minimize.
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So just later, when somebody takes this out in context,
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let me put in here my statement that I think everybody should say,
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That was a pretty bad-looking situation, I've got to say, the violent parts.
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But also, that was, you know, a small percentage of the people who were there.
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I think the people who were behind the people who were doing the violence
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Maybe unwisely, but it's a whole different level of badness.
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All right, so amazingly, Democrats have responded to this thing that they're calling an insurrection
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by creating a propaganda vehicle to demonize part of the country
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without giving that part of the country due process and the right of rebuttal.
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What would be, hypothetically, and I'm not recommending this,
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I want to be really clear, I'm not recommending this, but just as a mental experiment,
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what would be a process that the public would use
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to fix a problem of its government going into bold propaganda mode
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and accusing people without letting them defend themselves?
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So the Democrats have decided to respond to what they call an insurrection, but wasn't.
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And we know that because people who plan insurrections, they generally have their weapons out.
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But that wasn't the case with these protesters.
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So whatever it was they were planning to do, it wasn't taking and holding the country, that's for sure.
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So if you were to blame half the country for causing an insurrection, and it's a fake accusation,
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and you make the accusation in public, and you damn these people, and you compare them to white supremacists,
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and you try to get the country so angry at them
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that one of them might get a loaded weapon and drive across the country
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if you were so despicable that you would do any of these things,
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But you have to be conscious of the fact that they're creating the situation that invites an insurrection,
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which is demonizing one part of the public unfairly
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and not letting that side of the public present their side of the case.
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That is the most un-American thing you could do.
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And that is the reason that revolutions are fought.
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Revolutions happen because the government is abusing you and not letting you have your say.
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This is the government abusing part of the public right in front of us
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these are people who should be thrown out of government
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Because it's just not the kind of destruction we need at the moment.
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But morally, ethically, yeah, they've made the case for insurrection.
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They've actually created a public case for insurrection
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by removing the most basic protection that every fucking American has,
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which is the right to face your accuser and address the allegations.
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Yeah, Joel Pollack was pointing this out in the tweet
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that they're basically responding in an un-American way
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It's one thing if, like, there's one idiot who says something
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and you say, ah, that sounded a little un-American.
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Here's what Brian Stelter said about Tucker Carlson.
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And, you know, Tucker not covering the January 6th stuff.
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who tries to distract kids when a performance falls apart.
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Inflation is higher than it's been in a lifetime of most Americans.
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Violent crime is making cities impossible to live in.
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And more than 100,000 Americans OD'd on drugs last year.
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Why isn't there a primetime hearing about any of that?
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that bastard is trying to make you look at your current biggest problems.
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Tucker Carlson is trying to get you to focus on
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that we're being distracted by our actual problems
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If there's anybody who should fall into a giant tank of chocolate,
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is that as much as he is mockable in many ways,
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Like, he looks like if you knew him personally,
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So if you have not watched the January 6th hearings,
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Now I'm going to summarize it into its simplest form,
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Because there's going to be a bunch of different pieces
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but eventually it'll become like a delicious gourmet soup.
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All right, here's what the Democrats are telling us.
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Number one, there were some white supremacists,
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in this organization that's led by a person of color.
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The Proud Boys have had at least one conversation
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with a different group called the Oath Keepers.
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Because he wanted to make sure the vote was accurate.
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Number five, Trump once said of the Proud Boys,
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they should be ready for violence on his behalf.
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if you didn't know that Trump does opposite talk,
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that should tell you something about what Trump thinks.
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but you don't know anything about what's in Trump's head,
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you can look at the thoughts that are in the other people's heads,
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Trump did not try to stop the violent protests.
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and others had asked him to at least disavow the protests.
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but their argument is that he didn't try to stop it for hours.
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that Trump instigated an organized insurrection against the government.
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if you put all the stuff that is not any evidence that it happened together,
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you didn't actually have any of the ingredients,
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when you put together all the ingredients you don't have.
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and then one thing that is not supported by the facts,
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probably that other thing that I don't quite understand
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because it's couched in other stuff that's true.
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and then toss one thing in there and change the subject.
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You know, Hannity's not like the one person who does it, right?
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And it's the speed you say it that makes it work.
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Here's how Axios described this argument technique.
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All right, so I'm describing it as Hannity persuasion.
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Axios, which is, Axios is trying to make a name.
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Axios was trying to make a name as a news organization
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and probably have stories that the left didn't like.
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But I feel like they're making an honest attempt
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So, and I would say that in my casual, you know,
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But here's how Axios talks about the Democrats' argument.
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to establish, you know, Trump's culpability in this.
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of an argument that uses indirect connective tissue?
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Here's an argument with indirect connective tissue.
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Lots and lots of things I don't know about him,
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He has never had a sophisticated seven-point plan.
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he's never had a sophisticated seven-point plan.
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Do you know who has sophisticated seven-point plans?
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There's no such thing as a sophisticated seven-point plan
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I don't think he had a sophisticated seven-point plan
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Trump simply takes all the complexity out of it.